Command Agriculture inputs being looted by politicians, government officials

On Feb 14, 2020 27,162

By Abel Karowangoro

Farmers have expressed mixed feelings over delays in the distribution of Command Agriculture inputs from their local Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depots.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa strategically appointed retired Air-Marshal Perrance Shiri to the key post of Agriculture minister so that he supervises the Command Agriculture Programme

Farmers say the slow pace at which they were receiving inputs like fertilizer from the GMB was disturbing.

In an interview with Zim Morning Post at the Norton GMB Depot where they had camped for a week while waiting for inputs, some Mashonaland West farmers said they had not got the promised fertilizers, adding the programme had been hi-jacked by corrupt people within Zanu PF and the government.